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gaurav-404321

Posted Tuesday, September 16, 2008 9:33 AM

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I have a stored procedure
I have declared a variable of type nvarchar(max) in this.
it is opening a cursor and appending some values in this string.Its not concatenating the strings beyong datalength of 7200. What can be the solution to this.

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Posted Tuesday, September 16, 2008 11:01 AM

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Can you post the code please? There are places where you would have to explicitly cast as varchar/nvarchar(max) or be cut off at 4000/8000 characters. Considering the length is 7200, it sounds like somewhere there's an implicit varchar(8000).

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Posted Tuesday, September 16, 2008 11:25 AM

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Also you can concatenate without using the cursor like this :

DECLARE @v AS NVARCHAR(MAX)
SELECT TOP 10000 @v = coalesce(@v + ', ' + M1.Name, M1.Name) FROM master.Sys.Columns M1 CROSS JOIN master.Sys.Columns M2 ORDER BY M1.Name
PRINT DATALENGTH(@v)
--257856
--EXEC (@v)

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Michael Earl-395764

Posted Tuesday, September 16, 2008 12:56 PM

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Try this:

DECLARE @v AS NVARCHAR(MAX)
SELECT TOP 10000 @v = coalesce(@v + CAST(N', ' AS NVARCHAR(MAX)) + CAST(M1.Name AS NVARCHAR(MAX)), CAST(M1.Name AS NVARCHAR(MAX)) FROM master.Sys.Columns M1 CROSS JOIN master.Sys.Columns M2 ORDER BY M1.Name
PRINT DATALENGTH(@v)

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Posted Tuesday, September 16, 2008 1:36 PM

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Michael Earl (9/16/2008)

I don't see the difference with my solution Micheal, what I am missing?

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gaurav-404321

Posted Tuesday, September 16, 2008 9:57 PM

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DECLARE @CategoryIDString nvarchar(MAX)
DECLARE @ParameterIDString nvarchar2000)
set @ParameterIDString ='90001,90004,90005,90006,90007,90008,90009,90010,90011,90012,90013,90014,90015,90016,90017,90018,90019,90020,90021,90022,90023,90024,90025,90026,90027,90028,90029,90030,90031,90032,90033,90034,90035,90036,90037,90038,90039,90040,90041,90042,90043,90044,90045,90046,90047,90048,90049,90050,90051,90052,90053,90054,90055,90056,90057,90058,90059,90060,90061,90062'

--FORCREATING CATEGORY STRING---------------------
SET @strquery='DECLARE CATEGORYIDCURSOR CURSOR FOR '
SET @strquery=@strquery+ 'SELECT categoryid FROM parameter WHERE parameterid in('+@ParameterIDString+')'
execute sp_executesql @strquery
SET @CategoryIDString=''
OPEN CATEGORYIDCURSOR
FETCH NEXT FROM CATEGORYIDCURSOR INTO @columnName
WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS=0
BEGIN
SET @CategoryIDString= CONVERT(nvarchar(max),(CONVERT(nvarchar(max),@CategoryIDString)+ convert(nvarchar(max),'SELECT [NAME] FROM category where categoryid=')+convert(nvarchar(max),@columnName) +convert(nvarchar(max),' UNION ALL ')))
FETCH NEXT FROM CATEGORYIDCURSOR INTO @columnName
END
CLOSE CATEGORYIDCURSOR
DEALLOCATE CATEGORYIDCURSOR
SET @CategoryIDString=convert(nvarchar(max),(LEFT(convert(nvarchar(max),@CategoryIDString),DataLength(@CategoryIDString)-9)))
--------------------------------------------------

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Posted Wednesday, March 03, 2010 11:45 AM

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i have a similar issue. I have really a large String (docuemnt template). I have palceholders/keys inside teh template. i have a table with key and keyValue (nvarcahr(max)). i have cursor that goes through each key and replaces it with Keyvalue. Code works fine till it hists 4000 charecters . It throws error after that .

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Posted Wednesday, March 03, 2010 2:24 PM

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In the example given, @parameterID holds a list of IDs in sequence and there is no break in the sequence.

Could you resolve your issue by finding Categorys between the first and last IDs.

Alternatively, why not process the string into a temp table using string slicing and then use in (select categoryID from #temptable) instead of the long text string of @parameterID

Obiron

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